liz
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an artist. I spent lots of time drawing and cartooning. However, after years of art classes I decided that the art that I created was not the art that I loved, so I switched paths and majored in English at college. Afterwards, I became a writer, which made sense, since I am an absolute language nut - books, type, print, words, and wordplay all fascinate me.
In the early 1960s, I bought an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic and fell in love with photography. I was wedded to that camera until I moved to an old house in the country that needed lots of work. By then, I also had two kids, so photography sort of dropped by the wayside.
Three decades later, I'm still in the house, the kids have grown, and after much prodding by them I now own a little group of digital cameras:my first, an Olympus point-and-shoot; my second, a Canon 30D; and my third, a Canon Elph, which I won in a contest. I'm as nutty about them as I was about my old Pentax, which has now found a new and loving home with a friend.
I enjoy being a community member of UTATA, which melds my two passions: words and images. I particularly enjoy its generosity of spirit, as well as its insistence on civility.
Portfolio
Portraits
Photo Journalism
Projects
Landscapes
Stock Photography
Artist's Statement
Everyday life provides a rich source of visual beauty. I delight in the shapes, colors, and textures of common items. Certain sights make me catch my breath no matter how often I see them. A fertile meadow, a plump apple, and an illuminated doorway always catch my eye. As a result, I photograph such subjects regularly and frequently.
I do this partly for my own pleasure and partly because I want others to enjoy what I notice. The items, buildings, and landscape elements that most delight me jump out of the background to capture my attention. When creating my images, I often reflect this automatic focus; I frequently isolate the main subject in my photos, either by selection, focus, or cropping.
Favorite Photos (of mine)
